You have to remember these 1980s processors were ridiculously slow by modern standards, and "same type of results" implies a ballpark goal that was impressively aspirational on its own terms.

The details of "Does that mean the same speed, or faster?" weren't really relevant, because the speed difference was anywhere between 10X and 100X - which was an astounding, if rather fuzzy, target.

ARM 1 got surprisingly close to that out of the gate, with the added benefit of being unexpectedly power efficient.